A Brilliant Death

Amanda Baron died in a boating accident on the Ohio River in 1953. Or,
did she? 
While it was generally accepted that she had died when a coal
barge rammed the pleasure boat she was sharing with her lover, her body
was never found.
 
Travis Baron was an infant when his mother
disappeared. After the accident and the subsequent publicity, Travis’s
father scoured the house of all evidence that Amanda Baron had ever
lived, and her name was never to be uttered around him. Now in high
school, Travis yearns to know more about his mother. 
With the help of
his best friend, Mitch Malone, Travis begins a search for the truth